Cancel Culture 2025: West Point Cancels Award Ceremony Intended to Honor Tom Hanks

Association of Graduates Cancels Award Ceremony Intended to Honor Tom Hanks

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The West Point Association of Graduates has canceled award ceremony intended to honor two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks, according to the Washington Post.

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The move comes as President Trump has continued to intervene with Ivy League institutions and military academies across the nation.

West Point Association of Graduates President and CEO Mark Bieger announced the cancellation in a faculty email on Friday, claiming the decision will better enable West Point to “focus on its core mission of preparing cadets to lead, fight, and win as officers in the world’s most lethal force, the United States Army.”

Bieger said that the West Point Association of Graduates and the academy “will not be holding the Thayer Award ceremony,” and did not clarify if the award will still be presented to Hanks in another forum or if the award had been revoked altogether.

Trump has taken interest in putting his stamp on the country’s top academic institutions during his second term, West Point included.

Following an executive order in January promising to overhaul the “leadership, curriculum, and instructors” at the nation’s top military academies, the Trump administration wielded a red pen to West Point’s curriculum.
The Army’s communications director, Rebecca Hodson, said, “Under this administration, we honor our history and learn from it — we don’t erase it.”
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